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    [Verb]  | "tar" | \ ˈtär \


    1: to urge to action —usually used with on


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English terren, tarren, from Old English tyrwan;

    [Verb]  | "tar" 


    1: to cover with tar

    2: to defile as if with tar


    Origin: 14th century ;

    [Noun]  | "tar" | \ ˈtär \


    1: a dark brown or black bituminous usually odorous viscous liquid obtained by destructive distillation of organic material (such as wood, coal, or peat)

    2: a substance in some respects resembling tar; especially : a condensable residue present in smoke from burning tobacco that contains combustion by-products (such as resins, acids, phenols, and essential oils)

    3: sailor


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English terr, tarr, from Old English teoru; akin to Old English trēow tree {mat|tree:1|};

    [Noun]  | "coal tar" 


    1: tar obtained by distillation of bituminous coal and used especially as an industrial fuel, in making dyes, and in the topical treatment of skin disorders


    Origin: 1785 ;

    [Noun]  | "jack-tar" | \ ˈjak-ˈtär \


    1: sailor


    Origin: 1720 ;

    [Noun]  | "juniper tar" 


    1: a tarry liquid used topically in treating skin diseases and obtained by distillation from the wood of a Eurasian juniper (Juniperus oxycedrus) —called also cade oil, juniper tar oil


    Origin: circa 1930 ;

    [Noun]  | "pine tar" 


    1: tar obtained by destructive distillation of pinewood and used especially in roofing and soaps and in the treatment of skin diseases


    Origin: 1855 ;

    [Noun]  | "tars" 


    1: one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel;


      * e.g., " ... a book about the adventurous lives of tars, skippers, and pirates of the 18th century "



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    [Noun]  | "tar" 


    1: one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel;


      * e.g., " ... a book about the adventurous lives of tars, skippers, and pirates of the 18th century "



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    [Noun]  | "jack-tars" 


    1: one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel;


      * e.g., " ... a jack-tar swabbing the deck under the critical eye of the first mate "



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    [Noun]  | "jack-tar" 


    1: one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel;


      * e.g., " ... a jack-tar swabbing the deck under the critical eye of the first mate "



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     [ "tars" ]

    1: The round rubber things on you car that spin around to make it go. (southern talk)

      * e.g.,  ... My tars are fixin to blow out so I need to go over yonder to buy some new'ens. 

     [ "tar tar" ]

    1: Synonym for retarded or if you're PC, special needs, mentally challenged, etc.

      * e.g.,  ... I have to go work with the tar tars as part of my community service. 

     [ "tar-tar" ]

    1: Mental Retard, or used as mentally retarded. I.E. There is no plural

      * e.g.,  ... Shut up you tar-tar 

     [ "tar" ]

    1: One of, if not the single, least pure forms of heroin. The process of converting raw opium to tar heroin is much cheaper and faster than that of purer forms such as "Number 3" and "Number 4". As it's name implies, tar heroin is dark brown or black in color, and usually very sticky.

      * e.g.,  ... "All the heroin that's been coming in has been that Mexican Black Tar" 

     [ "Tar" ]

    1: Euphemism for word Retard, typically can be used in a large quantity of scenarios.

      * e.g.,  ... Jordan: What does this mean? 

     [ "Tar" ]

    1: British slang usually used as a quicker way to say Thank You. The use of the word "Tar" relating to the phrase "Thank You" is believed to originate from the 18th Century.

      * e.g.,  ... *Person 1 hands Person 2 a cuppa.* 

     [ "tar tars" ]

    1: tits, breasts

      * e.g.,  ... i grabbed her massive tar tars 

     [ "tar tar" ]

    1: a rather large and masculine woman who wears slutty clothes usually reserved for attractive smaller women and possesses a very large penis despite claiming "her" femininity.

      * e.g.,  ... Your sister is a tar tar. 

     [ "Tar" ]

    1: ) A black, goopy substance that was used in the past as punishment and harassment on people, and usually accompanied with being covered in chicken feathers.

      * e.g.,  ... After watching them cover the asshole in tar and feathers, we went to get my mom's tar's rotated, and then watched the world from the observation tar. 


     [ "Tar" ]

    2: ) A so-called "redneck" way to pronounce "tire". It is not redneckish though. This pronunciation is used in the lower Midwest, Appalachia, and Pennsylvania.


     [ "Tar" ]

    3: ) An alternate pronunciation of "tower", usually said in the regions listed above.

     [ "Tar" ]

    1: Tar is a noun in the English language. The word originated as a neutral term referring to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun Pez, a descendant of the Latin adjective Tar ("color black").1 Often used slightingly, by the mid 21th century, particularly in the United States, its usage had become unambiguously pejorative, a common ethnic slur usually directed at people of Sub-Saharan African descent.

      * e.g.,  ... Shut up, you tar! 

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